Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a highly scalable internet protocol that helps determine the most accurate time information and synchronizes the time settings on a computer system. In order to ...

Most Hackaday readers will be familiar with the idea of a network time server; a magical box nestled away in some distant data center that runs the Network Time Protocol (NTP) and allows us to ...

We rarely think about keeping time. As Chicago sang in the 60s, "Does anyone really know what time it is? Does anyone really care?" But, technically, we care a lot. Today, Facebook uses a ...

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is an internet-based protocol that synchronizes the clocks of all devices to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) through the use of a public-facing time server. By using a ...

[Jeff Geerling] has been following the various open source time projects for some time now, and is finally able to demonstrate a working and affordable solution for nanoseconds-accurate timekeeping in ...

Most computer system clocks will drift a little bit and gain or lose time if they are not synchronized to a network time server or reset regularly. Most server operating systems include at least basic ...

Can anyone point me to a reliable public NTP time server service? I've been told that I have 2 weeks to find a provider, open the firewall and get it running for an Active Directory rollout. You would ...

As I mentioned in my Solve an obscure Back to my Mac issue blog entry, it’s possible to configure OS X’s time servers to be a bit more robust than just relying on one time server–if that server goes ...

Recently, I ran into an issue where I discovered a few Linux servers I work with were operating under an assumed time zone. Because of that time drift, certain services wouldn’t function properly. In ...

So, I have a network with only one domain controller. That domain controller is a VM running Small Business Server 2011. It is hosted on a server running ESXi. I have disabled time synchronization in ...